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Fractionalization and the Size of Government

Lind, Jo Thori - CESifo - 2003

This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …

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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2012

We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation

Klose, Bettina; Dan Kovenock J. - CESifo - 2012

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

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The Economics of Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - CESifo - 2012

as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …

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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012

conflict and more intense fighting. …

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Resource Rents, Power, and Political Stability

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014

We study the association between resource rents and political stability, highlighting the importance of the distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are likely to be positively associated with the stability of a...

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Wars of Conquest and Independence

Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - CESifo - 2013

Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...

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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - CESifo - 2014

based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …

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All-pay-all Aspects of Political Decision Making

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We study decision making processes with non-standard all-pay structures. We motivate this interest through a group of regulatory, political, legal, military, and economic applications where individual actions determine the consequences for a larger group or the public. The common features of...

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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - CESifo - 2014

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and analyze how each group’s internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

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